Re: amd64 and video card experiences?
On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 18:42:21 +0200
Thomas Habets <thomas@habets.pp.se> wrote:
> Once upon a midnight dreary, Marcelo E. Magallon pondered, weak and weary:
> > If you want a 2D accelerator, find yourself a US$5 PCI card.
>
> There is a problem with that actually. The cheap cards tend to suck ass
> quality-wise. So even if you're only running text-mode on a server with them,
> they tend to make the whole box unstable. And that's if they work at all in
> the first place.
Actually, a cheap Matrox G200 will have a lot better signal quality then
any other modern card. All current ati and especially Nvidia cards have
horrible end filters. Besides, the drivers for the g200 are very stable.
Greets,
Hylke
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